From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A problem with old bugs Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:16:58 +0200 Message-ID: <83h93dnf9h.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r32h9zj4.fsf@jane> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488385164 20112 195.159.176.226 (1 Mar 2017 16:19:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 16:19:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 01 17:19:19 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cj6yD-0004eH-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:19:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47442 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cj6yJ-0006qK-TW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cj6wM-0005gb-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:17:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cj6wJ-0005sy-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:17:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40905) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cj6wJ-0005su-R5; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:17:19 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4977 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cj6wJ-0002E4-4W; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:17:19 -0500 In-reply-to: <87r32h9zj4.fsf@jane> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:22:55 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212681 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:22:55 +0100 > > I'm sorry to say that I'm a bit sad. A few months ago (maybe a year) > there was a call to so some work on old, outstanding bugs. > I volunteered for that, and while I did not spend /a lot/ of time on > that, I feel that I did indeed help a bit. Then, I proceeded to > actually fix a few bugs that were within my reach. I sent a patch > fixing 21072, then a patch fixing one bug I did not formally submit (but > both the bug and the patch are seemingly quite trivial), and then wanted > to start discussion on 19873. > > Unfortunately, I have to say that I got very little feedback. There was > some discussion (John's on testing, Eli's on my stupid mistakes etc.), > but my patches/emails are mainly left there undecided. Can you tell which bugs are those? I'd like to look them up and see why they stalled. In general, if there are no unresolved issues raised during the discussions, you just need to ping the bug address once a week or two, to make sure the reports don't fall through the cracks. Thanks.